FOREVER SLAIN Blog:Black Bleeding are a blackened brutal death metal band from Belgium. The band started out back in 1999. Shortly thereafter they released their debut demo entitled “God Attack Victim”. The band went on to release two full-lengths which include the debut from 2002 “Beyond the Flames of Hell”, and “The Great Satan” from 2009. In 2014 the band finally released their third full length album which took five years to complete. The result would turn out to be called “A Bright Future”. This album features eight new tracks at nearly thirty-five minutes of playing time. Initially the third album of Black Bleeding was self-released in 2014 on compact disc format. Nihilistic Holocaust released the tape cassette version this year. This is the second time Nihilistic Holocaust worked with Black Bleeding. The first was a re-release tape version of “The Awakening” ten years ago.Not being familiar with the earlier works of Black Bleeding I can only talk about the present sound and presentation. Blackened death metal played in a brutal way would be the easiest way to describe the sound of the album. Overall, the sound of “A Bright Future” is a melding of style which can be described as modern day extreme metal. At the same time, the band demonstrates some old-school roots. I can also hear some old-school heavy metal present in the riffing. When I mention “old-school” when addressing the new Black Bleeding album, I’m referring more to the 80’s rather than the 90’s. Most of these examples can be heard at the beginning and ending of the songs. The music is played in an extremely aggressive manner not without a hint of melody. The band has been compared to early Impaled Nazarene, specifically the “Ugra-Karma” album. I can hear this in the song “Older, Fatter, Balder”, especially in the drum sound. Interesting ideas can be heard on this track and on the album in general.http://foreverslainzine.com/2015/09/rev ... ht-future/

According to Metal Archives, these guys have been active since 1998, and they have many demos and two full length albums on their back. Coming from Habay-La-Neuve (Belgium) the band has released an excellent album, and they added elements from death metal genre, black metal genre and some sprinkles of punkish attitude.Of course they are not new on extreme metal music and they have good taste on every chaotic structure. It’s like a chaotic and punk version of black metal, but I find a particular personality in the entire album. It seems like these musicians have musical skills, but they don’t mind if instruments sound raw, emotional and cathartic. Inclusive, tracks like “It’s good to be the king” reunites different and distinctive sections, everything tied in chaos and horrible miasmas. My favorite one is “Can food & Weapons”, which is totally composed with Nordic black metal influence. You already know those cold guitar riffs and sharp structures. At the end it’s a good album if you are looking for rawness and distinctive stuff from Belgium. This one was edited in CD (self -released) and tape format. – Victor Varashttps://zombieritualzine.wordpress.com/ ... ht-future/

118 copies of the BLACK BLEEDING tape are now circulating in the underground and the tape is available through various distros.

By the way we have received 3 new reviews.

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For old-school thrash and black metallers like me, Belgian band BLACK BLEEDING are a very easy kind of act to love. They are unashamed, angry and full of energy, which is nothing new, but never claims to be anyway. Describing themselves as the kind of grumpy old punks who were “around in 1977 and then sold out to become rich exploiting human stupidity”, their attitude is belligerent, bold and brash as they reissue (on tape) the third full length of their seventeen year career via Nihilistic Holocaust.Whilst so many extreme metal albums today will begin with an atmospheric intro or a slow build up, A Bright Future kicks off with just a pick scrape before launching into a crash of cymbals and tremolo riffs. Alexandre’s vocals are putrid and guttural, yet carry a catchy chant in the chorus, albeit a rough and coarse one, but it is his guitar work that carries this LP with a variety of melodic riffs, distorted power chords and Slayer style, serial killer scribble solos.The punk ethos is held throughout the tape, with a demo/DIY feel which the trio surely have no intentions of losing. Under the three minute mark, “The Curse of Self Respect” rumbles with a gritty, Motorhead sounding bass and dirty swagger, before bursting into a black metal blast. This album is full of rough and ready rawness, with a live, rehearsal room atmosphere ignited further by the top quality riffs throughout the record. Technically, the timing is a little off at times, and this is far from a polished performance, but without it’s grit, this record wouldn’t stand out from this rest in the way it charismatically does.Fans of bands such as Midnight and Nunslaughter will know that when using this kind of old school formula, shorter releases have more impact, and at only eight tracks, A Bright Future manages to sound punchy, mettlesome, and diverse in the genres of punk and extreme metal. So throw the tape in your deck, grab a can and head bang!http://metal-rules.com/review/viewrevie ... 015&pos=11

MOURNING THE ANCIENT Webzine (Usa)This CD-R is a review copy of an original release on cassette. I don't know anything about this band... but they are very impressive! Extremely catchy stuff. The first track 'A bright future' is amazingly cool sounding. I suppose you would class them as death metal, but definitely not your standard run-of-the-mill band. Musically the band fucking shreds! The songwriting and musicianship is top notch. Every song has its own sound, never leaving you bored. If you can get your hands on this you will not regret it. Incredible.

CANADIAN ASSAULT Webzine (Can)When you hear this Belgian bands name, and see the accompanying artwork, it feels like the album title does not fit, just too optimistic and happy sounding. Then I hear the music on first few tracks, and it is harsh and violent black death metal, with an old school metal air in the pacing and arrangements. The vocals are great deep rolling growls, which are very commanding in performance, which is accented here and there by some good black metal style rasps. Then we get down to it by track 4 and 5, “Its Good To Be King” & “Older, Fatter, Balder”, this is when the album title started to make much more sense to me. The band starts getting more experimental, and more commercial sounding in a way, with the fancy little start and stops, increasingly happier sounding melodicism. This is also about the time this album started to lose me, after I had quite enjoyed the first three tracks, the cheerful and bouncy riffs, and arrangements, just do not fit the style of music at all. Plus with all honesty, they just do not seem to have the chops to pull this off, the songs start to get clunkier, choppier, lacking the earlier flow and coming off as confused, conflicted and forced. The album gets back on the rails by track 8 (which for me makes four really good songs and four kind of lousy songs), which is the longest one on the album, so at least they finish strong. As you can see, for me, it is a mixed bag with half of the album being excellent and other half of the album being muddled mess and sub-par in quality. It is a shame, because when these guys are playing the right way, for the style they play it in, it is something bordering on superb, then they trip on their own feet the next moment. It is caveat emptor on this release for me.